Friday, January 09, 2009

I'm Fifty-Part Six (Scenes From a Pop Culture Life)

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Top pic-me in a Chicago hotel room with a Dick Tracy hardcover circa 1988.

2nd-me at one of the earliest version's of Booksteve's Library circa 1975-Note Godzilla model. The posters are from DC's Kirby mags. Can't tell but those are Snoopy stickers on the lamp, a CRACKED magazine soup can and POGO figurines on the wall display.

4th-The 1st convention I ever set up at, circa 1992. The original art display was Rich Halegua's -not mine.

5th-OTR Convention 19896th-My 1st job at the Waldo Pepper Pizza Company. The back of the shirt said "More than a mouthful."

7th-Me and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at a Con circa 1989

8th-Leisure suits were a horrible affliction of the seventies. circa 1977

9th-Me in 1982

10-Me as a film mogul 196811-It's a little-known fact I played "Spunky" in the old OUR GANG shorts! (Not really! I do NOT want to see that spread around as gospel.)

12-Cowboy-circa 196211-Hulk- Circa 196812-Me in 195913-My room in 1966. Note the Bat-wall14-Batboy. 1966. Can't tell but tthose were Zorro gloves. The office building behind me would claim a special place in my life many years later (and if we're REALLY close I MIGHT tell you about it!)

a happy ( belated ) birthday to you, Steve. hope it was a great one, mate. & hope you're not too hungover this morning. assuming, of course, that people are still aloud to drink once they hit the big 5-0. . .

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First published in 1968 (I was 9!), I have been writing professionally part-time for more than two decades. I have been freelancing for various authors, editors and publishers for the past three years on the behind-the-scenes tasks of writing.